The Color Purple

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars | 26,075 ratings

Price: 17.46

Last update: 05-04-2024


Top reviews from the United States

Rhonda
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful story!
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024
This is my first time to read after watching movie. I didn’t expect to read it as writing to Dear God as I felt it was like a diary that Celine wrote to witness what happened in her daily’s. Beautiful story - Sad, heartache, triumph and happy
Carlos H. Davila Jr.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful novel
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
I’ve seen the movie many times to include the broadway play and the movie musical.
The book by Alice Walker is great to read and follows the flow of the movie.
AmandaReadsSoMuch
4.0 out of 5 stars Devastating but beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024
This book has such devastating and beautiful content. I took a while to get into it, but once Nettie entered the "conversation", the book flew by and I really appreciated the time and place and how strong the female characters were. By the end of the book, even Mr. ____ had grown and changed from true villain into someone that could be rooted for. The growth of the various characters and the way the women supported each other in such terrible circumstances are all reasons I can understand why this book has won awards. This made for a fantastic book club discussion.
Dr. Gkw Koh
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
Powerful story of growth and triumph in the face of abuse, poverty and prejudice.
D.K. Sanz
5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
For me, this book falls into the category of human behavior, struggles, and experiences that I want to read about. It’s fiction but reflects the times, namely how appallingly white people treated black people, especially women, in the first half of the twentieth century. The dialogue is consistent and seems so authentic, staying true to the well-developed and endlessly endearing characters. I had so much love for Celie, Shug, Nettie, and Sofia—for their kind hearts and earned wisdom. Their courage, grace, and determination to survive and fight back had me cheering them on from beginning to end. I laughed and cried with them.

There are so many great quotes from the book, but one of the many that made me laugh hard was Sofia responding to white men calling her “Aunt.” As Celie explained, Sofia ast one guy “which colored man his mama sister marry?”

The Colored Purple is a gem of a book to be treasured throughout time and so well deserving of the Pulitzer Prize awarded to its author. I highly recommend it.
Mrs. Ceejay
5.0 out of 5 stars Great sisterly story
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
Such a riveting story about ladies bonding during good and bad times.
Andre Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the hate
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2024
Such a smooth read, and yet it's timelessly powerful in its message.
Pence & Rodriguez
4.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2024
So glad at 59, I read this book. I have always loved THE COLOR PURPLE, the movie, the musical, the revival of the musical, the new movie (well not as much as the other 3), Whoopi Goldberg,

I wanted to go back to the source material - Alice Walker herself.

Told through a series of letters, I was never more engaged in a person’s life, in the heartbreaks, the love, the family, the friends who become family.

So thank you Celie for leading such a FULL LIFE that I was reminded of what it feels like to openly sob at the end of a book as you see your family. You are a life well lived - vulnerable, strong, unapologetic. “What if we be just friends?” has so much more meaning now.

Worthy of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and every other prize.
I now also appreciate how brilliant the screenplay was to pull the most important words fo the book and get those moments on screen. I will say Marsha Norman’s book for the musical seems to have used the movie for a LOT of inspiration. I am surprised Spielberg wasn’t given credit in her adaption.

We are in Costa Rica celebrating my boyfriends’ 60th birthday and this was the perfect book to close with.

“But I don’t think us feel old at all. And is so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. AMEN.”

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